The Toronto Hockey Club , known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blueshirts , were a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto . They were a member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The club was founded in 1911 and began operations in 1912. The club won its sole Stanley Cup championship in 1914.
47-466: The Torontos may refer to the following professional ice hockey clubs based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto Blueshirts (1912–1917) Toronto Arenas (1917–1919) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Torontos . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
94-513: A 1966 episode "Return to Lawrence" of the series The Legend of Jesse James . He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke (1967) for his performance as Dragline, a chain-gang convict who at first resents the new prisoner in camp played by Paul Newman , then comes to idolize the rebellious Luke. Kennedy followed with films such as The Dirty Dozen , Bandolero! , and The Boston Strangler . In 1970, he appeared in
141-661: A celebrity guest on the game show Match Game . In 1998, he voiced Brick Bazooka for the film Small Soldiers . He then made several independent films, before making a 2003 comeback to television in The Young and the Restless , playing the character Albert Miller, the biological father to character Victor Newman . In 2005, he made a cameo in the film Don't Come Knocking , playing the director of an ill-fated western. Kennedy made his final film appearance in The Gambler (2014) as Ed,
188-463: A letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. However, on March 18, Trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of
235-538: A musician and orchestra leader, died when Kennedy was four years old. He was raised by his mother, Helen A. (née Kieselbach), a ballet dancer. His maternal grandfather was a German immigrant; his other ancestry was Irish and English. Kennedy made his stage debut at age 2 in a touring company of Bringing Up Father , and by age 7, he was a New York City radio DJ. Kennedy graduated in 1943 from Chaminade High School in Mineola, Long Island, New York. Kennedy enlisted in
282-599: A one-team league. The NHA owners made this move as a work-around the NHA constitution, which barred them from expelling the Blueshirts even though they had long since lost patience with him. Despite having rid themselves of Livingstone, the other teams wished to keep a team in Toronto. They also needed a fourth team to balance the schedule due to the Quebec Bulldogs ' decision to sit out the season. Accordingly, Livingstone's landlord,
329-715: A technical adviser to ensure accuracy for the show's military base setting. Kennedy later described the Silvers show as "a great training ground". His film career began in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come . He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including as a sadistic jail guard in the Kirk Douglas modern western Lonely Are the Brave (1962), a ruthless criminal in the Cary Grant suspense film Charade (1963), and in
376-539: The 1915–16 NHA season , finishing in last place in the five-team league. Livingstone was frequently at odds with his fellow owners, particularly Sam Lichtenhein of the Montreal Wanderers . Tempers boiled over when the NHA added a second Toronto team in 1916–17 , representing the 228th Battalion of the Canadian army. The 228th was forced to withdraw its team in mid-season when the unit was called overseas. That left
423-590: The Arena Gardens . The arena was owned by the Toronto Arena Company, organized on September 19, 1911, with Sir Henry Pellatt as president, Lol Solman as managing director, and directors Aemilius Jarvis , Joseph Kilgour, T.W. Horn, R.A. Smith, and Col. Carlson. There were two other directors from Montreal. W. J. Bellingham was the initial manager. The franchise which became the Toronto Hockey Club
470-515: The Joan Crawford thriller Strait-Jacket (1964). Kennedy was busy in 1965. He appeared with Gregory Peck in the mystery Mirage , with a large cast led by James Stewart in the plane-crash adventure The Flight of the Phoenix , with John Wayne in the war film In Harm's Way , and with Wayne and Dean Martin in the western The Sons of Katie Elder . He played the character Blodgett in
517-653: The Toronto Maple Leafs midway through the 1926–27 season . The NHA/NHL claimed the $ 5000 franchise fee from the 1919 St. Patricks was to 'buy' Livingstone's hockey club. By all accounts, however, the money instead went into Calder's pocket. Despite the ties to the Torontos, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts' history as their own (unlike the Canadiens, the other NHL franchise with NHA roots). They do, however, claim
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#1732852441067564-690: The Toronto Shamrocks . Livingstone was from Toronto and offered more, and Robinson accepted his bid. At the same time, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association —upset over the NHA's efforts to bring Cyclone Taylor back east—broke all ties with the NHA and conducted a player raid. The PCHA created a new team in Seattle and stocked it with the Torontos' two leading scorers in Wilson and Foyston, their goaltender, Hap Holmes, and two other key members of
611-587: The Brave , Charade , Strait-Jacket , McHale's Navy , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , Mirage , Shenandoah , The Sons of Katie Elder , The Flight of the Phoenix , In Harm's Way , The Dirty Dozen , The Boston Strangler , Guns of the Magnificent Seven , tick… tick… tick… , Cahill U.S. Marshal , Thunderbolt and Lightfoot , The Good Guys and the Bad Guys , Earthquake , The Eiger Sanction , and The Delta Force . Kennedy
658-663: The Cobalt, Haileybury and Canadiens clubs and sold one franchise to form the Montreal Canadiens , who took the Les Canadiens' players. In 1911, O'Brien decided to leave professional ice hockey entirely. Quebec interests bought one of the franchises from O'Brien, and the final two were sold to interests who planned to relocate the teams to Toronto. Toronto had not previously had an arena with artificial ice that would be large enough for an NHA team, but in 1911 work had begun on constructing
705-644: The Man and Virus , Kennedy maintained a lifelong affinity for Japan and its culture. Kennedy resided in Eagle, Idaho , at the time of his death. He died on the morning of February 28, 2016, of a heart ailment at an assisted living facility in Middleton, Idaho , 10 days after his 91st birthday. He had a history of heart disease . directed by Richard A. Colla written, directed and produced by Nicholas J. Corea For his contributions to motion pictures, Kennedy received
752-460: The Man in 1977 and Kinji Fukasaku 's Virus in 1980. Both films were produced by Haruki Kadokawa and featured extensive international casts and shooting locations. Although Proof of the Man was only released theatrically in Japan and Virus saw a financially unsuccessful truncated cut in the U.S., Kennedy was highly enthusiastic about his involvement. In 1984, Kennedy starred with Bo Derek in
799-472: The NHA franchise was bought from O'Brien, who had operated a team with it, no other assets came with the franchise. According to Coleman , the franchise for the Torontos was that used by the Les Canadiens. Other books quote O'Brien as selling the Canadiens to George Kennedy , leaving the case of which franchise was sold to Robinson unresolved. In any case, the Toronto team was built from scratch and did not include any players from Les Canadiens. The first manager
846-485: The NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted. Nevertheless, the Torontos defeated Victoria in a best-of-five series played in Toronto in three straight games. Quinn left the team after the Stanley Cup win to return to business and his absence
893-414: The NHA with an odd number of teams. On February 12, the team owners—at a meeting that did not include Livingstone—decided to even-up the number of teams by suspending operations of the Torontos for the rest of the season. All players were given to other NHA teams for the rest of the season. At the time, the plan was to return the players to the Toronto franchise, but the other owners wanted Livingstone out. At
940-588: The PCHA and never did. According to authors Morey Holzman and Joseph Nieforth, this strongly suggested a deal had been made between Livingstone, Robinson and the Patricks. To make up for the players lost in the raid, Livingstone transferred Shamrocks players to the Blueshirts and allowed the Shamrock franchise to go dormant. The Torontos, composed mostly of former Shamrock players, skated to a record of 9 wins, 14 losses and 1 tie in
987-657: The Stanley Cup. The Arena Company was then granted a permanent franchise for the 1918–19 season that evolved into today's Toronto Maple Leafs . The NHA was founded in 1909 without any teams based in Toronto . National Hockey Association (NHA) founder Ambrose O'Brien operated four franchises in the NHA: the Cobalt Silver Kings , Haileybury Comets , Les Canadiens and the Renfrew Creamery Kings . In 1910, O'Brien suspended
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#17328524410671034-521: The Toronto Arena Company, was given a temporary Toronto franchise in the NHL and leased Livingstone's Torontos players for the inaugural 1917–18 NHL season . At the time, Frank Calder , the NHL president, was demanding that the Arena Company and Livingstone come to an agreement to transfer the franchise. To Toronto fans, it looked like little had changed on the ice. Although the team had no official name, it
1081-546: The Toronto team in Jack Walker and Eddie Carpenter . The only regular Blueshirts' players to remain in Toronto were Cameron and Roy McGiffin . Livingstone announced he planned to sell the Shamrocks. After the dust settled, the Patricks had stocked their new team, conducted a raid on the NHA, Robinson was able to sell his team and Livingstone had the Toronto market to himself. Despite the raid, Livingstone did not retaliate against
1128-649: The United States Army during World War II in 1943. He served 16 years, reaching the rank of captain. Kennedy served in the infantry under George S. Patton , fought in the Battle of the Bulge , and earned two Bronze Stars . He re-enlisted after the war, and he was discharged in the late 1950s due to a back injury. His first notable screen role was a military policeman on the TV sitcom The Phil Silvers Show , where he also served as
1175-614: The box-office bomb Bolero . His other films during the 1980s included Savage Dawn , The Delta Force and Creepshow 2 . He played Captain Ed Hocken in all three entries of The Naked Gun film trilogy (1988, 1991, 1994) alongside Leslie Nielsen , Priscilla Presley and O. J. Simpson . In 1990, Kennedy appeared in the Korean film Mayumi directed by Shin Sang-ok . Despite featuring Kennedy, it saw no wide release outside of South Korea and
1222-729: The bumbling plane dispatcher. The role went to Lloyd Bridges because Kennedy "couldn't kill off his Airport cash-cow", Jerry Zucker said in 2010. Kennedy co-starred with Clint Eastwood in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and The Eiger Sanction , and with ensemble casts in the disaster film Earthquake and the Agatha Christie mystery Death on the Nile . He also starred in two television series: Sarge , which aired from 1971 to 1972 and The Blue Knight from 1975 to 1976. Kennedy starred in two Japanese productions, Junya Satō's Proof of
1269-523: The centre of a controversy among NHA owners leading to the NHA suspending operations and the owners forming the National Hockey League (NHL). The Blueshirts were replaced in the NHL by a new Toronto Hockey Club under the ownership of the Toronto Arena Company, the Blueshirts' former landlord. The Torontos' players were leased to the Arena ownership temporarily and competed in the NHL in 1917–18, winning
1316-512: The disaster film Airport , in which he played one of its main characters, airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni. He reprised this role in Airport 1975 , Airport '77 and The Concorde ... Airport '79 , the only cast member to appear in each film of the series. The Airport franchise helped inspire the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker satire Airplane! , in which the filmmakers hoped to cast Kennedy as
1363-711: The dying grandfather of Mark Wahlberg 's Jim Bennett. His role lasts for less than two minutes during the film's opening scene, wherein Ed (moments before his death) bequeaths the responsibilities of patriarch to a heartbroken Jim. Kennedy was married four times, to three women. In the 1940s, he married Dorothy Gillooly, who had served in the Women's Army Corps. They were divorced in the 1950s; Dorothy returned to her hometown Buffalo, New York. In 1959, Kennedy married Norma Wurman, also known as Revel Wurman. The couple had two children, son Christopher and daughter Karianna. Kennedy and Norma divorced
1410-506: The end of the season, Toronto was reinstated, with the condition that Livingstone sell the club within 60 days. However, Livingstone obtained a court order to prevent the sale. On November 22, the NHA owners announced that the league would suspend operations for the 1917–18 season. About two weeks later, all of the owners except Livingstone announced that they were creating a new league, the National Hockey League . However, they did not invite Livingstone to join them, effectively leaving him in
1457-456: The first time in 1971, remarried in 1973, and divorced a second and final time in 1978. The same year, Kennedy married Joan McCarthy (née Castagna), daughter of John Castagna and former wife of William James McCarthy. They remained married until her death in September 2015. The couple adopted three children, including Shaunna Kennedy, who later developed drug-abuse problems. In 1998, after Shaunna
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1504-532: The history of the "temporary" Toronto NHL franchise of 1917–18. These players were the property of the Toronto Hockey Club in 1916–17 and returned to play for the Torontos of 1917–18. For the full season-by-season history of the Toronto Hockey Club, see List of Toronto Hockey Club seasons . The following former Torontos have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame : George Kennedy George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016)
1551-594: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torontos&oldid=1219071408 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Defunct ice hockey teams in Toronto History of the Toronto Maple Leafs Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Toronto Blueshirts The club became
1598-406: The new arena was supposed to be ready. It soon became clear that construction of Arena Gardens would not be finished in time, and in mid-December it was announced that the two Toronto teams had been dropped from the schedule and the league would play with only four teams that season. The Torontos played their first game on December 25, 1912, before 4,000 fans at Arena Gardens. The Toronto Hockey Club
1645-407: The players and the Stanley Cup revenues (fixed later by court at $ 20,000). Additionally, it could exist separately from any legal action filed by Livingstone. On paper, the club was owned by Arena Company secretary-treasurer Hubert Vearncombe and Querrie, with Vearncombe as team president. The NHL readily admitted this new team as a member in good standing. Querrie remained as general manager. However,
1692-509: The team had a dismal five-win season and was forced to suspend operations in February, and blamed Livingstone for interference. By 1919, the NHA owners had established that there would be no revival of the NHA. However, the dispute with Livingstone forced the Arena Company into bankruptcy. The Arenas were sold to a group headed by Querrie, who renamed them the Toronto St. Patricks . This team became
1739-407: Was Toronto native and former Ottawa Senators player Bruce Ridpath , who had intended to be a playing-coach but was no longer able to play due to an injury suffered when he was struck by an automobile the previous year. The schedule for the 1911–12 season was drawn up with two Toronto teams. As the Arena was not finished, no games were scheduled to be played in Toronto until the end of January, when
1786-476: Was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe . He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in Airport (1970). Among other films he had a significant role in are Lonely Are
1833-583: Was bought by Frank Robinson , Percy Quinn and other investors for CA$ 2,000 . Quinn was president of the Dominion Lacrosse Association , a Canadian professional lacrosse league that had patterned itself after the NHA. The second Toronto franchise was awarded to a group affiliated with the Tecumseh Lacrosse Club of Toronto. The Tecumsehs bought a franchise from O'Brien, paying CA$ 500 cash and promissory notes for CA$ 2,000 Although
1880-480: Was declared unfit to raise her daughter Taylor, Kennedy and Joan also adopted this grandchild. Kennedy was friends with James Stewart , and he provided the voiceover in a mini-tribute to Stewart on TCM. Kennedy was an aviator who enjoyed flying and owned a Cessna 210 and Beechcraft Bonanza . Following his experiences working for the Far East Network during WWII and professional involvement with Proof of
1927-548: Was engraved on the Stanley Cup. However, in 1947, the NHL added the name of the Toronto Arenas for 1918. The Arena Company had originally promised to return the Toronto players to Livingstone if no transfer could be arranged. Instead, before the 1918–19 season , it formed a new club, the Toronto Arena Hockey Club . This new franchise was separated from the Arena Company because it was due money to Livingstone from
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1974-489: Was felt. The next season, the team fell to fourth place in the six-team NHA with a record of 8 wins and 12 losses (down from 13 wins and 7 losses). Before the 1915–16 season, several events occurred that changed the NHA and the Blueshirts specifically. Robinson joined the Canadian military in 1915 and put the Blueshirts up for sale. Robinson received two offers for the club; the McNamara brothers and Eddie Livingstone , owner of
2021-462: Was made up mostly of former Blueshirts. As a result, the newspapers still called the team "the Blueshirts" or "the Torontos," as they always had. Additionally, the team wore a white sweater with a blue "T," the same uniform worn by the Blueshirts in the previous season. Led by general manager Charlie Querrie and coach Dick Carroll , the team won the Stanley Cup in 1918. In fitting fashion, no winner
2068-497: Was owned by Quinn, managed by Ridpath, and initially coached by Tom Humphrey who was soon replaced by player-coach Jack Marshall . The team Ridpath put on the ice included Cully Wilson and future hall-of-famers Hap Holmes , Harry Cameron , Frank Foyston , and Frank Nighbor . The Torontos finished the year in a tie for third place. Before the 1913–14 season, the club faced some upheaval. Ridpath resigned as manager in October 1913 and
2115-538: Was replaced by Marshall. Ridpath would try out as a player but gave up his comeback attempt before the season started. Despite the changes, the Torontos won the Stanley Cup in 1914, defeating the Montreal Canadiens in a playoff to decide the NHA champion. After the season, the team then played a series with the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey League . A controversy erupted when
2162-519: Was the only actor to appear in all four films in the Airport series , reprising the role of Joe Patroni three times. He also played Police Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films, and corrupt oil tycoon Carter McKay on the original Dallas television series. Kennedy was born on February 18, 1925, in New York City, into a show business family. His father, George Harris Kennedy,
2209-530: Was ultimately a box-office failure. On television, Kennedy starred as Carter McKay in the Tv series Dallas (1978–1991), appearing from 1988 to 1991. From the mid- to late-1990s, he promoted "BreathAsure" tablets in radio and television commercials. Around this time, he reprised his role as McKay in the television films Dallas: J.R. Returns and Dallas: War of the Ewings . In the late 1970s, Kennedy also appeared as
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